Angela Crow obituary
When Coronation Street began in December 1960, Tony Warren’s television creation instantly made its mark with distinctive, believable characters such as Ena Sharples, Elsie Tanner, Annie Walker, Albert Tatlock and Ken Barlow who portrayed life in a working-class back street in the north of England. Around them, Warren peopled the cobbles of the fictional Weatherfield with other equally authentic “residents” in one of television’s first contributions to the social-realist revolution that was already under way on stage and in the cinema.
Angela Crow, who has died aged 86, joined the ITV serial for
